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SHORT PROSE BITES* [by Alan Ziegler]
*bites used here as a noun These quotes and fragments are part of a compendium-in-progress. ^ A partial glossary of nomenclature: Anecdotes, aphorisms, apothegms, Briefs, brief essays, Casos, crônicas, Definitions, Denkbilder, Espresso stories, extracts,…
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A Portfolio of Shorts by Newer Writers [selected by Alan Ziegler]
Nora Brooks SOUP OF GLASS AND CHALK-STAINED SKIES Maybe you own a crockpot. Meals made in them are supposed to be nourishing. Chalky edges of plaster gape open around the hole in the wall…
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Ring Me Up, Scotty [by Charles Coe]
I've discovered that when you can’t figure out how your fancy new Internet-based office phone works, you create more problems than you solve by jabbing buttons at random. And tempted as I might be,…
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Philip K. Dick [by Mitch Sisskind]
No telling what time it was As he woke in darkness with The sleeping cat’s warmth, A gift from God, on the back Of his neck and, weeping, He willed himself to perfect…
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The Short Prose Hall of Fame Inaugural Induction—a Fantasy* [by Alan Ziegler]
* This fictive conversation comprises factually-based dialogue I have put in the speakers’ mouths along with their actual words (sometimes lightly adapted), which are in italics. TIME: The never-present SETTING: The Théâtre du Splendide…
